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The cause of the accelerated expansion of the Universe poses one of the most fundamental questions in physics today. In the absence of a compelling theory to explain the observations, a first task is to develop a robust phenomenology. If…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tracy Holsclaw , Ujjaini Alam , Bruno Sanso , Herbie Lee , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , David Higdon

Aimed at progress in mega-electron volt (MeV) gamma-ray astronomy, which has not yet been well-explored, Compton telescope missions with a variety of detector concepts have been proposed so far. One of the key techniques for these future…

The 17m Imaging Air shower Cherenkov Telescope MAGIC (Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Canary Islands) has recently entered its commissioning phase. One of the main goals of the MAGIC telescope project is to provide an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dominik Elsaesser , Karl Mannheim

Purpose: Although recent deep energy-based generative models (EBMs) have shown encouraging results in many image generation tasks, how to take advantage of the self-adversarial cogitation in deep EBMs to boost the performance of Magnetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Yu Guan , Zongjiang Tu , Shanshan Wang , Qiegen Liu , Yuhao Wang , Dong Liang

The proposed SCORE detector consists of a large array of light collecting modules designed to sample the Cherenkov light front of extensive air showers in order to detect high energy gamma-rays. A large spacing of the detector stations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-04 Daniel Hampf , Martin Tluczykont , Dieter Horns

The MAGIC telescope observed the region around the distant blazar 3C 66A for 54.2 hr in 2007 August-December. The observations resulted in the discovery of a gamma-ray source centered at celestial coordinates R.A. = 2h23m12s and decl.=…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-07 Manel Errando , Elina Lindfors , Daniel Mazin , Elisa Prandini , Fabrizio Tavecchio

The "knee" of cosmic ray spectra may reflect the maximum energy accelerated by galactic cosmic ray sources or the limit of the galaxy's ability to bind cosmic rays. Measurements of individual energy spectra are a crucial tool to understand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Hu Liu , Fanping Li , J. Zhao , L. Y. Wang , Zhe Li , S. Z. Chen

We present a novel method for both forecasting and recasting upper limits (ULs) on dark matter (DM) annihilation cross sections, $\left< \sigma v \right>^{UL}$, or decay lifetime $\tau^{LL}$ . The forecasting method relies solely on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Giacomo D'Amico , Michele Doro , Michela De Caria

The existing methods for detection of the cloud scenes are applied at relatively small spectral range within shortwave upwelling radiative wavelength flux. We have reported a new method for detection of the cloud scenes based on the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Rehan Siddiqui , Rajinder K. Jagpal , Sanjar M. Abrarov , Brendan M. Quine

We present an analysis technique that uses the timing information of Cherenkov images from extensive air showers (EAS). Our emphasis is on distant, or large core distance gamma-ray induced showers at multi-TeV energies. Specifically,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-03 V. Stamatescu , G. P. Rowell , J. Denman , R. W. Clay , B. R. Dawson , A. G. K. Smith , T. Sudholz , G. J. Thornton , N. Wild

Despite the significant experimental effort made in the last decades, the origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays is still largely unknown. Key astrophysical information to identify where these energetic particles come from is provided…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-09 D. Ravignani , A. D. Supanitsky , D. Melo

We report upper limits to the very high energy flux (E>100 GeV) of the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C454.3 (z=0.859) derived by the Cherenkov telescope MAGIC during the high states of July/August and November/December 2007. We compare the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Anderhub , S. Vercellone , I. Donnarumma , F. D'Ammando , M. Tavani

Motivated by the limitations encountered with the commonly used direct reconstruction techniques of producing mass maps, we have developed a multi-resolution maximum-likelihood reconstruction method for producing two dimensional mass maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Khiabanian , I. P. Dell'Antonio

Ground-based observations of Very High Energy (VHE) gamma rays from extreme astrophysical sources are significantly influenced by atmospheric conditions. This is due to the atmosphere being an integral part of the detector when utilizing…

The MAGIC Telescope, now taking data with an energy threshold well below 100 GeV, will soon be able to take full advantage of the fast slewing capability of its altazimuthal mount. Exploiting the link with the GCN network, the MAGIC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Bastieri , N. Galante , M. Gaug , M. Garczarczyk , F. Longo , S. Mizobuchi , L. Peruzzo

High energy gamma-ray astronomy has recently made significant progresss through ground-based instruments like the {\it H.E.S.S.} array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The unprecedented angular resolution and the large field of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Heinrich J. Voelk

The Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope system consists of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) and is located on the Canary island of La Palma. IACTs are excellent tools to inspect the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-06 T. Miener , R. López-Coto , J. L. Contreras , J. G. Green , D. Green , E. Mariotti , D. Nieto , L. Romanato , S. Yadav

We present a new algorithm, called Multiresolution Regularized Expectation Maximization (MREM), for the reconstruction of gamma-ray intensity maps from COMPTEL data. The algorithm is based on the iterative Richardson-Lucy scheme to which we…

We present a method to implement the idea of Jain & Taylor to constrain cosmological parameters with weak gravitational lensing. Photometric redshift information on foreground galaxies is used to produce templates of the mass structure at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. M. Bernstein , B. Jain

The shell correction method is revisited. Contrary to the traditional Strutinsky method, the shell energy is evaluated by an averaging over the number of particles and not over the single-particle energies, which is more consistent with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Pomorski